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Vendor — sole-source deep dive

Alberta Blue Cross Benefits Corporation

Total sole-source dollars
$1,476,545,085
Sole-source contracts
1
Distinct ministries
1

Spend by fiscal year, stacked by ministry

Per-year, per-ministry breakdown of this vendor's sole-source contract dollars.

  • 2017-2018: Health $1,476,545,085.

Every sole-source contract

Verbatim from Alberta Open Data. Where the upstream published no work description or sole-source justification code, the field renders as .

Every sole-source contract attributed to this vendor: amount, ministry, fiscal year, contract dates, work description, and the upstream-published sole-source justification code.
AmountMinistryFYPeriodWork descriptionNSC code
$1,476,545,085Health2017-20182017-07-012018-06-30To administer government sponsored benefit programs. Annual disclosure for date range: July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018b

Recurring-justification findings

This vendor is not named in any recurring-justification cluster in the current evidence build.

Vendor-scope-drift findings

This vendor has no qualifying vendor-scope-drift pair in the current evidence build.

What we cannot tell you yet

Three publishing gaps in the Alberta open-data surface limit how far this deep-dive can go. Each is a real gap in current publishing, not an aspiration.

Amendment linkage

Alberta publishes contract amendments as standalone rows; the linkage back to the parent contract is not in the open data. Without it, this page cannot show a vendor's amendment-creep trajectory or aggregate amended dollars to the original award.

Bid history

The sole-source register publishes the chosen vendor and a justification code, not the bidders that competed (or were dis-invited). A vendor's competitive-pressure profile cannot be reconstructed from the public record.

Line-item / unit-price detail

Contracts publish a single total dollar value. Unit prices, hours billed, materials cost, and rate cards are not in the open data, so price-per-unit comparisons across vendors and ministries are not feasible from this disclosure alone.